Y.A.E.S.

Title stands for Yet Another Etsy Shop. That would be my new shop, named VINES. In it you can find some of these, along with some of my handspun. This should be an adventure.

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I highly recommend that anyone who is able to take 3 weeks off at a time does so. My, what a wonderful, much-needed recharge time. PumpkinFamily spent a marvelous time with great weather, lots of beach time, zero internet and TV, lots of walks, and just general relaxed outside merriment in the sunshine.

I was able to spin almost every day and got so much done. I managed to knit exactly 2 rows (later frogged due to brain damage) the whole time. The spinning is below, you can go to Flickr to see specific details of each.


The other fibery event of vacation was a visit to the Martha's Vineyard Fiber Farm to see the baby goats and sheep and meet Susan the owner, and marvel at her energy and spirit - that woman is going non-stop all the time. Cheryl hopped over to the island from her Cape Cod vacation and joined us for our visit.


Happy summertime everyone, hopefully I will be posting somewhat regularly again.

Before I Go....

A have a date for you to save for your summer fiber activites:

Saturday, August 16th is the 2nd annual Fiber Revival. Go check the website - there are workshops and demos, some really wonderful vendors, and overall fibery goodness.

So, put it on your calendar, it will be here before you know it.

Photo shamelessly swiped from Cheryl.

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Apart from memes and auction publicity, I guess I've got nothing going on. I am clinging to each day by my fingernails - counting down the 9 days left til a much-anticipated 3 whole weeks of vacation. There is much in the way of real-life stuff that needs to get done before then.

I am not knitting - choosing instead each night to collapse on the couch and watch tivo-ed Ghost Hunters episodes and let my mind float disembodied like the paranormal beings they seek out. I was spinning, but even that feels like it takes too much energy right now. I have lofty dyeing goals - I bought a good amount of naked fiber and have so many ideas that I actually feel crippled by the choices.

I plan to bring my wheel and tons of fiber on vacation with me, though dyeing will have to wait til I return. Knitting will come on the trip too, nothing big, just socks and some odds and ends I'm trying to finish up.

And for eye candy - a mosaic of my Macro-May photos on Flickr.


I plan to post once more before I leave, but just in case life gets in the way - See you in July!

Give a Sister a Hand

One of our sisters is in need. PippiKneeSocks and her family are having a rough time of it. Amy of Spunky Eclectic has coordinated an auction with all proceeds going to Pippi and her kids. The current items up can be seen here and include a really gorgeous whopping 9oz batt from Indigo Moon (no longer in the biz, so very rare) some delicious yarn and I've donated my kit for the Bee Fields shawl - pattern by the fabulous Anne Hanson, and yarn from WoolyWonka Fibers.

Go and bid, get some nice loot and help out a wonderful member of our community. There are about 24hours left on these items, and keep watching Amy's blog for even more coming.

Meme, or Cop Out, you choose!

Linda tagged me, and I'm short on time - rushing to get away for the long weekend, so you get a meme!

The rules of the game get posted at the beginning. Each player answers the questions about themselves. At the end of the post, the player then tags 5-6 people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know they’ve been tagged and asking them to read your blog.

Let the person who tagged you know when you’ve posted your answer.

1) What was I doing 10 years ago?

Living in Winter Hill, still living like a college student despite being 4 years out of college and being married for almost 2 years. Just a few months away from achieving my career goal of becoming a badass UNIX systems administrator.

2) What are 5 things on my to-do list for today (not in any particular order:

(its late in the day, so some of these are done already - hooray!)

• cutover a test environment to use a new cobol compiler environment (done!)
• document the above, because I'll forget how I did it if I wait til next week (done!)
  
• Pack up me and two kids so we're ready to leave for the Vineyard at 4:30 am tomorrow.
• Not succumb to exhaustion before I accomplish above goal.
• Get to bed as early as possible.
  

3) Snacks I enjoy:

chocolate, salt & black pepper potato chips, strawberry twizzlers

4) Things I would do if I were a billionaire:

• Retire from IT work.
  
• Start dyeing and spinning for fun and money, hopefully not needing the money would make it stay fun (?)
• Move somewhere - coastal Maine or perhaps Martha's Vineyard
• Renovate the house on the Vineyard.
  

5) Places I have lived:

South Shore of Mass., Somerville Mass, North Shore of Mass. Thats it.

6) 5 peeps I wanna know more about:

If you feel like playing along, I always love seeing people's responses, but I won't tag anyone!

A Little Diversion

I made a little detour into the sewing world this week. When I saw this sweet little bag tutorial posted I knew I just had to make one. Long ago I dabbled with quilting, so I have a tiny little stash of fat quarters, and this was a snap to whip up during an extended naptime.


It is very wee - just big enough to hold a skein of yarn, or if I let the blues in it remind me of you know who, then perhaps a couple little tea samples? I had fun browsing my little fabric stash, and just might whip up a few more - I think they'd be handy to have around for impromptu gift containers.